La petite couronne #[nn]

That bird's-eye panorama of dense urban sprawl — apartment blocks, wide boulevards, and tangled streets rendered in delicate ink lines with warm golden tones — sets a quietly striking tone for Gilles Rochier's La Petite Couronne. The aerial view captures the layered, lived-in texture of the suburbs ringing Paris, the kind of landscape rarely celebrated in art but full of its own complicated humanity. Published by 6 Pieds Sous Terre in 2017, this is a thoughtful, finely crafted work from a creator with a sharp eye for the overlooked corners of French urban life.